Crick and his colleagues proposed that the genetic code consists of a series of blocks of information,called ________,each corresponding to one amino acid in an encoded protein.
A)alleles
B)codons
C)genes
D)polypeptides

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The question specifically asks for the term that corresponds to each amino acid in a protein, which is the codon. Alleles and genes refer to larger segments of DNA, and polypeptides refer to the chain of amino acids that make up a protein, but not the specific codons that correspond to each amino acid.

Crick and His Colleagues Proposed That the Genetic Code Consists